I think I saw one guy in a ST t-shirt at our showing (which certainly wasn't full), but I wasn't really paying attention because I was literally blinking back tears at the end, plus I tried to make my guys sit around and listen to the end credits but I couldn't get them past the little homage to Alexander Courage's original theme music.
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But I loved the movie. I think it went AU in the best kind of way, in an Escriba kind of way, in a way that actually heightens the characters and gives them something interesting to do -- particularly Sulu, Uhura, and Chekov. I admit to being a little peeved with Scotty because this one isn't someone I'd ever lust after. I think they did a great job of casting Kirk -- he's still Kirk, but a better actor. I never lusted after Kirk and I doubt I'd lust after this one either, but I can see him as an effective captain. Spock is good, Bones is good, they're all just fine again with the possible exception of Scotty who truly seems to have suffered a personality transplant, not to mention picking up a weird sidekick.
I loved the exterior of Enterprise far more than I thought I would -- Kirk's Enterprise always was my favorite ship and she's really lovely in this version. That shot as they come up around the rings of Jupiter -- gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. The interior -- not so much. Is she a ship or a giant hulking factory floor? There's no sense of intimacy on the bridge or anywhere else. I found that kind of weird. And I really would have liked to have heard a few of the old bridge sounds.
And yeah, JK, you're right -- the Delta Vega thing or whatever was a really weak little plot development, as was the plausibility of that meeting in an ice cave. And a bad thing for Spock to have done, too, though since Starfleet had a facility there it could have been worse. Though I don't get the feeling anyone would have gone and rescued Kirk.
The red matter was the one really unconvincing element in the whole film. It looked like a giant paint ball, for God's sake. They really should have worked on that a little longer. I also don't understand how that black hole didn't suck up Earth and the whole solar system, but whatever. Apparently the order of magnitude of disruption from giant balls of red matter isn't proportional to the effect of teensy weensy little droplets of red matter.
Also, if Nero and Spock were able to get through a black hole intact, does this mean Vulcan also exists on the other side? But I'm just a TnT fanfic writer, not a physicist.
I also don't understand how a change in the timeline put an Orion babe in Starfleet Academy at this point in history, but whatever. There's a lot of peculiar little changes (phasers that produce bullet sounds?) and you kind of have to decide whether to care about them or not and generally speaking I didn't care.
I enjoyed the reference to Admiral Archer and his beagle, though that doesn't seem historically possible to me either, unless Admiral Archer is Admiral Archer Jr. Anyway, I'm still hoping we will run into T'Pol in this universe someday, even if it's just a throwaway line. I really look forward to the next movie. I think the franchise is in capable hands. However, I can't imagine this birthing a new show anyone could afford to make, and that's a pity.
I can tell you as a Trekkie from waaaaaay back that I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, and I don't think it spits on the original at all. When my son and I were getting into it about the timeline and what this movie did to it in the car on the way home (he was more freaked out about it than I was), I felt compelled to remind him that hey, the orignal series was fictional too.
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I'm looking forward to it.